#explanations

Never explain―your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

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The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

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I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#explanations #failure #good #i #i think

The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level of the predictive hierarchy, but the ones that contain the deepest explanations. ↗

— David Deutsch

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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat. ↗

— Pat Riley

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You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles - events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily. ↗

— Harry Browne

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When I knelt to kiss her hand, she sighed heavily. 'Ask me nothing,' she said. 'Life itself is too joyless to be more embittered by explanations. Let all rest between us as now. I will love coldly, you warmly, with no nearer approaching.' ("The Basilisk") ↗

— R. Murray Gilchrist

#life #love #life

Those who know you don’t need explanations, those who don’t won't believe you ! ↗

— Chris Geiger

#explanations #inspirational #life #inspirational

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

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The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests. ↗

— David Deutsch

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